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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 06, 1744
Page
2
The piece mocks how English habitually spares humor for scarcity and traces state lotteries to fruit, gingerbread, and babyhouse diversions. It accuses monopolists of preying on public funds with night-rate shilling schemes and predicts a lottery price hike to a half guinea, lamenting the projectors behind it.
Advertising a primitive edition priced at 35 shillings with 24 copper plate prints asserts superiority over a rival publication by J. Stephens. The notice mocks the competitor as a printer’s devil who copied the work and reversed pages, urging Gentlemen to choose the original translation by Johnston available near St Clement's Church and Paternoster Row.
A long catalog of recent publications by A Millar opposite Katherine Street in the Strand lists books on arithmetic and commercial practice. It includes a complete system of theory and practice for men of science and business, with treatises on book keeping, music, fiction, navigation, Latin grammar, and classical works, with prices and editions noted.
A compact notice of a pocket volume edition on religious courtship and aims for religious households. It advertises sermons by Rev Elitha Smith, bound and priced, with a second Ottawa imprint listing forty-two sermons on Christian life dedicated to a London bishop, noting two volumes.
A bookseller lists Neal's History of the Puritans and related volumes, including the Whole Works of Mr. John Flavel in two parts, with details on editions, prices, and sale terms. Also notes are given for returning First Volume buyers and availability of cleaned copies.
Second Edition essay on study by late Mr Clarke of Hull advertised with list of writings. Books include Burropius Nepos Florus Justin Ovid Suetonius and Erasmus Colloquia selections with various editions and prices. Aimed at readers in Pater-noster Row with noted spellings and prices.
A late 17th or early 18th century advertisement for Hayes’s Broker’s Book Companion and Tables. It touts interest calculations, exchange tables between Amsterdam and London, and tables to convert gold and silver to pounds. It promises bonds, annuities, shares, lottery tickets, and discounts, with a canon table for gold coin redemption.
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